Approved for 6 EMDRIA Credits

Dissociative child and teen clients who exhibit concerning problem behaviors are often challenging to therapists to not only engage in treatment but provide effective trauma therapy. This workshop will describe how a client splits into parts of self-including victim, protective and imitator parts.  This workshop will focus on protective parts and imitator parts that are hostile and aggressive at home, school and community and how they attempt to torpedo therapeutic treatment through violent or destructive actions to themselves, caregivers, and the therapist. Specialized play therapy interventions including Gestalt play therapy are required for successful treatment that addresses such disturbing and disruptive symptoms that are encapsulated in dissociation. Participants will teach their client and caregivers how to engage all parts of self through play therapy and expressive therapies to establish safety in the internal system which reduces the serious acting out behaviors. Therapists will utilize curiosity to work with protective parts through interventions in the sand tray, art and imaginative play. This play therapy process will help the internal system collaborate as a team so that the client can desensitize early childhood traumatic memories and caregivers work to repair attachment wounds

Presenters: Annie Monaco, LCSW & Ann Beckley-Forest, LCSW

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